Delivery Hero is a leading global online food ordering and delivery marketplace across 40+ countries in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region..

Delivery Hero promotes delivery service in the digital age, Through the website or via their app , customers find and receive their favourite foods conveniently at home, work, or on the road. It is Europe’s most heavily backed tech start-up, raising $1.4bn.

Delivery Hero is the parent company of many popular brands in the food delivery space all around the world. A technology company AND a true food authority, only the expertise in both areas, food and tech, is enabling Delivery Hero to offer an exceptional service to customers and their restaurant partners. In 2015 foodora joined Delivery Hero. foodora operates in 50+ cities across 10 countries.

Niklas Östberg, CEO, founded Delivery Hero in 2011 and began his journey of building the global leader in online food ordering. Together with a hand-picked, passionate team they managed to truly catapult the business to where it is today:

• Pieter-Jan Vandepitte is COO, responsible for the International Markets, Sales, Customer Care and Business Intelligence.
• Emmanuel Thomassin is CFO, responsible for the financial activities, as well as the management of several internal departments.
• Mats Diedrichsen is CMO,responsible for all marketing activities globally.
• Christian von Hardenberg is CTO, responsible for all information technology and engineering at Delivery Hero.
• Ralf Wenzel is CSO, responsible for Strategy, M&A, IR, and Corporate Comms.

Diversity is a key pillar for success. Over 5,000 employees of over 70 nationalities across 5 continents enable Delivery Hero to exchange best practice from markets around the world.

Since the start, Delivery Hero has been continuously transforming the way people order food online. Choice, convenience, reliability, and quality are the key benefits for customers. Orders and payments can conveniently be placed online and restaurants are peer-reviewed, making it easier to choose the best restaurant every time.

In addition Delivery Hero runs a B2B entity. 9Cookies technology enables restaurants to manage their orders in an efficient way on an iPad. Their goal is to deliver an awesome order experience.

Recent additions include Yemeksepeti in Turkey, and Foodpanda in 20 countries in Eastern Europe, MENA, and Asia. The company also divested its position in the crowded UK market and decided against expansion to China to focus on new areas and the growing competition. Niklas Östberg, commented: “we remain focused on operating market leading brands, globally. Proceeds from this (UK) sale will allow us to pursue further global growth opportunities, as we have consistently and successfully done in recent years.”

In Australia, Delivery Hero consolidated all of its operations under its foodora brand. And The company reorganized its logistics, closing down its logistic platform Valk Fleet , concentrating all delivery related operations to its foodora brand.

In 2016, Revenues grew by 71% on a like for like basis leading to talk of an IPO. The company is in no hurry for that, instead remaining focused on increasing its market share while reining in costs.